Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Murder Mystery - Salve Regimen

Prologue:

Ravi is having a strange feeling tonight. He felt like he is floating in the middle of the sky. He always had the dream of flying higher in the sky. But it never happened since he became a researcher. He hardly met the other people in the world other than his co-researches and the people in his research center. But today, other than his dreams, he could feel the altitude with his senses.
He felt like as if he is being lifted up slowly like a gas balloon. When he woke up, he saw himself on top of the clouds. He felt it was his strange imagination but he can see than he is moving upwards. He is hard to believe that he is in the air.
He yelled and cried for help. But he uses his senses that no one hears or see that he is up on the clouds. He needs to think and act quickly as he is moving away from the atmosphere. If he crosses the atmosphere, he will be running out of oxygen. He is already begun to realize the less oxygen content in the atmosphere now. But he is running out of ideas. He is not sure about what next to be done to save his life.
By this time he crossed the atmosphere and he is deprived of oxygen for his life. His breath becomes hard and he is suffocated to death in the space.

Salve Regimen:

Lekha finished her morning swim in the shallow blue sea and returning to the shore. There are no tides in the shore as the sea is a shallow one. The ripples caressed her ethnic wears that she wore for swimming. She enjoyed and giggles as the ripples touching her nipples. She is a professional swimmer too. She can swim for kilometers in the sea to the place where the high tides start. All the people in the MRAC love to watch Lekha swimming in the morning and the evening.
The Medical Research and Approval Consortium (MRAC), is situated on the top of the highest peak in the Western Ghats. This is a medical research center for non one in the world is to be aware of. Top secret medical research operations and testing are carried out in this place. This place is somewhat equivalent to Area 51 of the military operations. Even some of the higher officials in the military are not aware of this place. It is directly under the control of the president with his own personals to look around.
This place is reached only by the Indian Military and Navy top generals. The people in MRAC hardly take solid food as they are the super genius in the Medical Research. Instead they take the pills as the astronauts do. They survive by having the pills.
They have the medicine for any kind of disease. They have the cure for the non-curable diseases in the world but they are not releasing it into the market before the complete testing is done. They have a cure for AIDS also but they are not releasing it to the market or to the people considering the side effects or after effects of the pills after consumption in the near future. So they will wait to a certain period of time as they are testing manually by injecting them into animals.
The awareness of such a place existence to the world will increase the disease rate as well as they will be arrested for harassing the animals for the testing purposes.

“Hi Lekha. Francis tried to reach you a couple of times and he had left a message for you” the reception list told to Lekha. Francis is the chief security officer in MRAC.
Lekha dropped in to Francis’s cabin room. ”Hi Francis. Hope you are looking for me.”
“Everybody here is looking for you Lekha, especially when you swim around “replied Francis sarcastically.
“What’s the matter to sneak in my cabin?” she asked without bothering his sarcasm.
“I’ve made necessary modifications in the main security access of the R-Box. You can drop in to this cabin when you find fault one more time”

R-Box is the main research area or hall. Only the research persons and the chief scientist are allowed to walk in to the R-Box.
Lekha is the head of the research team. Unlike other security systems, the R-Box security system is a peculiar and unique one. It is built with DNA match algorithm. So only the persons who have given their DNA will be allowed to enter. The central control unit is inside the R-Box. So no one can breach the R-Box to fake the DNA contents and as the control unit inside only the authorized persons are allowed to provide access to any new researcher.
Previously, any one can provide new DNA access to the R-Box. But Lekha wants to be on the other way. So with the help of Francis, she modified the design pattern of the security system.

“Thanks Francis. I’ll let you know if any. Is everybody arrived?” Lekha replied to Francis.
“Hmm..Not all of us. Our CRS hasn’t dropped in yet”

They refer their Chief Research Scientist as CRS. This place is a built in city called X-City. It has everything inside the city. From the power generation to the agriculture, everything is built in the plateau region of the hills. It has specially designed lines for the transport of the fuel. Each research scientist will have a bungalow near by the research center. Some of the researches in the lower level will not be aware that there exists an outside world which is full of fun, frolic and laughter. All the researches are brought to this X-City at an age of 2-3 itself and they are bring up the child to do research only. The child will know nothing other than research. They didn’t have any chance to look for the outside world to see how other people are living. To brief, all the people think that this is the whole world and the people have their life style as they are living right now. Not every child is brought to this research X-City. Only the child who has a different brain structure and having an abnormal field which are suited for research purposes are brought in. That will be taken care by the chief Scientist and his assistant.

Lekha checked with the seminar hall for everyone’s presence. She noted some of his team members and others seated in the hall. She has two research scientists directly under her control. She is not much aware of the rest of her team
Today is supposed to be the most important day for all the researches in the X-City. There is a meeting scheduled for all the chief researches in the X-City across various research technologies to have a plan to merge. To start with, the first proposal is the merge of the medical and chip designing techniques.
In the seminar hall, the research scientists from the medical field and the chip designing field are assembled to have a proposal and a plan to merge both the fields for one operation.
The current researches which are currently carried out in both the fields are mind boggling projects. The medical research is carried in MRAC and the chip designing is carried in another consortium called Germanium Industries which is located in the same X-City in the opposite plateau of the MRAC plateau.

The MRAC is working on a project which controls the BMI (Body Mass Index) so that the humans can control or adjust their weight according to the atmosphere. This is basically and extension of the calorie control capsules developed by them almost three decades back. This research is mainly targeted for the astronauts as they will be relieved by being carried with large amount of weight when they travel in space. Also the reverse methodology can be used by the divers to get buoyancy when they explore the aquatic life in strong currents.
The Germanium Industries is working in a project called Serum Chip Design. Unlike ordinary micro level chip design in the wafer, these are the specialized chips which are injected into the blood Serum. So instead of making the desired part to be controllable, they make the whole body as a controllable target. They actually succeeded in making the individual parts of the body to be under their control almost a decade back. But this is just an extension of the above project.
Today, they are going to merge both the projects such that a chip is injected into the serum so that people can control their weight in the run time. They can increase and decrease their own body weight depending upon where they are going and how to handle in that situation. For instance, if a diver is caught up in a strong water current in deep sea, first he has to increase his body weight so that he will not be carried away with the current. After settling down the current stream of moved out of the current stream, he has to immediately reduce the weight to get the buoyancy. If he is not able to swim in the under water he has to further decrease his weight, in order to float in the water.
This is the proposal made some months back. All the researches are done with the testing. So they decided to meet and discuss about the pros and corns of the merged project.

MRAC is headed by a Chief Scientist named Arjun. He got some helps from his assistant, Naveena. Germanium Industries is headed by a Chief Scientist called Arun. All the three reached the seminar hall to attend the meeting.

“Is every one from our team is present”, Naveena asked to Lekha.
“Hmm. Hope Ravi is missing. I tried to call him quite a lot of times. But he didn’t’ answer my phone” Lekha said in a disguise.
Even though Naveena is elder than Lekha, she is promoted as the Assistant Chief Secretary for MRAC. Lekha has got quite a lot of experiences and projects that she worked on. What she is lagging is the self control and temperament. That is why she is not promoted. From that time Lekha is having the cold war with Naveena. But she didn’t show up in front of others especially in front of CRS. Naveena consoled Lekha a number of times but each time it ended up in vain.

Vijay is also a core research scientist working directly under the control of Lekha. “Vijay, by any chance did you happen to see Ravi today?” Naveena asked him without minding Lekha.
“Nope. I got up late today morning and I came directly her to the seminar hall. Neither had I checked his house not his cabin. Do you want me to check one more time?” he replied to Naveena. But his eyes are always fixed on Lekha when she is around. For this particular reason, any sanction or approval of research made easy for Vijay. But Ravi is fond of Naveena. Both the girls are of two different types and characters. Some of them like Naveena and some like Lekha. Sometimes there may be a quarrel or fight between both the fan club members.
“No Problem doc. I’ll check it out” Naveena went in search of Ravi in his cabin replying to Vijay.
They call the research scientist as doc which is a short form of doctor. She checked in the cabin and there is also no note left. Usually, Ravi will leave a note if he is not around. Naveena wonders about this situation and this looks strange. But she has to prepare for some other arrangements for the meeting also. So she is not much cared about the present situation. She thought that he will be coming late today.

By the time meeting is about commence, Ravi’s body hit one of the space shuttle in the space. The astronauts in the space shuttle are freeze to death on seeing a dead body, that too in a collapsed state. The body is totally collapsed and it is in a state that it is not clear whether it is a human body or not.

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